skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the hardest things for me when I was in financial free fall was how little my friends could understand or help. They didn't understand that I literally had no where to go, and that me asking for a place to crash wasn't me simply wanting to visit at the last minute. My friends also weren't rich, so even if I could have stayed with them, it's not like they had a spare bedroom or guest cottage in which I could stay for a while. Oddly enough, the people who did let me stay with them were folks that were themselves nearly broke and/or recently homeless, all of whom I had only recently met. They understood that if I was asking them for a place to crash, that I really needed a place to stay. The kindness of strangers really saved my butt in 2009.
Thank you so much for your reply and interest. We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.

Why buy a book if you can rent one from your tax money to local libraries.

Why put others at loss, if you can create jobs for people who enjoy working in gig economy.
This is known as “GitHub Flow” (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/). I was pretty surprised by it when I first joined GitHub but I’ve grown to love it. It makes rolling back changes much faster than having to open up a revert branch, get it approved, and deploy it. When something goes sideways, just deploy master / main, which is meant to always be in a safe state.
Obligatory TheDailyWTF reference:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
If you read like one line further,

> On the surface, it seems really weird but it’s mostly a type of gallows humor that permeates a lot of especially young millennials and zennial men.

It is a humorous constructed setting that is not necessarily reality. As an aside, I'd never seen the phrase "gallows humor" to describe this sort of ?? post-irony.
Exactly, there was a great animation posted here once that showed the hobs with and without lasers. Given that there are examples of 44+ terabits[1] being transmitted optically I am not too worried about the bandwidth.

I'd love to be on the Starlink team, they are building some really cutting edge stuff. There are not many places or times where you can have such a big impact on the world and their team happens to be one of them. Good times.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200522095504.h...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907230.
Note that several years ago, there was an analysis of Uber drivers (by Uber's own economist) that said that one of the reasons that the money made by male drivers was greater than that of female drivers was due to male drivers driving faster and more aggressively. There are economic reasons for commercial drivers to drive aggressively.

As for me, as a motorcyclist, I've long noticed that taxis, and other commercial vehicles, often behave as if they believe other vehicles will get out of their way. Which they usually do.
There is always an alure of outsmarting everyone and getting rich quick.
Agents.jl v4.0
Show HN: Pythings – Program IoT microcontrollers from a web browser, in Python
Sort of; that has a risk you haven't accounted for: borrowing long-term and lending short-term (or rather, no fixed term). This is the same kind of risk that absolutely savaged WeWork.

For instance, if we take your 0.2% blended rate estimate for what you can get for your capital, that's still a real yield of -1.8% accounting for inflation. Luckily that 2% inflation loss is born by your token holders, not you, however that creates a real incentive to exit the tokens once interest rates rise.

Let's say interest rates rise to 5% due to a financial recovery - back to where they were in 2010. Now, not only have your token holders lost 2% value for each year you've carried the T-bills, you have to discount the notes by 3.375% (vs the current market 1.625%) to liquidate them should your token holders decide to redeem and move into bonds themselves.

To liquidate them you have to pay the difference in coupon rates, so a mark to market loss of $172M. If we take your 0.2% blended rate as an offset, even over a 5 year window, that still represents a net loss of $122M.

Borrowing long and lending short works until it doesn't, then you can ask Mr. Neumann what happens.
I get your point, but it's really a stretch. There's been no reported cases of covid at our school and the symptoms matched common cold. Sure I guess there's a chance it could have been some mild case of covid the same as it could have been flu or some other illness.

Prior to the pandemic she used to be in a tiny school with 4-6 kids and 2 teachers and she was sick seemingly every other week. The difference seems to be the combination of teachers sanitizing everything, keeping kids in smaller groups, temperature checks, and parents not sending sick kids to school.
> It’s a bunch of autistic losers

Gross. How has this not been flagkilled for ableism yet?
Boy, I'm only a fraction of the way through this article. What a fantastic piece.

Nietzsche is a frightening author, but I think what he writes is the logical conclusion of what we've done by championing existentialism. "The end doesn't matter, the true meaning is the friends we make along the way." WSB is taking that and running with it.
It's "self-censorship" no more than I am self-censoring myself right now, in this comment.

Reinvigorating your old work for publication, once you have a commercially viable avenue to promote it, is pretty average capitalism.

Plenty of work that is politically awkward is published under a strict pseudonym. This wasn't - and the author's position is that it was their choice not to publish.
you can still get in on GME dude no need to be salty. to the moooon :rocket: :rocket: :rocket:
A lot of alerts use moving averages or sustain times to squelch transient noise. You have to wait for the max sustain time to pass before you can conclude that lack of alert = lack of problem.

That time could very well be 5 minutes but the two need to be coordinated.
Which part? I've lived in Vienna and then Berlin since 2005 and have heard multiple times that you should say Roma & Sinti because Zigeuner is a slur.

In the press, literature and academia you will generally not find the term Zigeuner in referring to the people (but again Roma or Roma & Sinti) if it was written in the last 20+ years.
also worth mentioning, that I think the reason why MagnaX is in its location is proximity to Kenmore Air, which is one of the most experienced and high-volume aircraft workshops that has a specialty niche business in retrofits, repairs and upgrades of Beavers, Turbo Beavers, Otters and Twin Otters.

It's located at the north end of lake Washington.
> All you need to know about Machine Learning

Eek. This type of extreme claim makes me even more skeptical than I already was of such a short overview. Each of the topics listed could easily fill 100 pages themselves...

All who needs to know? Hopefully not anyone actually using this in their job. Maybe it would be a useful reference for the definition of the term, but it's completely wild to suggest you'll have any understanding of SVM, NN, CV, or gradient descent after only 100 pages, much less all of them...
Anything short of uBlockOrigin/uMatrix with JS disabled won't work. Not only you need to block cookies at the uBO level, you need to block JS because it can write cookie-like IDs to persistent storage such as indexeddb.
Done

https://imgur.com/a/xYO0MPT
https://pastebin.com/CwGwFXaX

This one was a bit more simple
IIRC GitHub used to use Campfire and it took a long time to switch to Slack - a switch to Teams would no doubt take a long time too!
Mockingbird open sourced: generate mock documents for data classification
If you don't have enough money to pay your rent but winning means getting a Ferrari then yes. Losing means nothing and winning is everything. At least that's the point I was trying to make.
I think half the story here is not just the role of r/wallstreetbets but also the curious phenomenon of shows like Mad Money and their decline.

My general take on these shows is that you get a bunch of men in their 30s, put them in a gym where the blood is flowing and they’re thinking about how their life compares, and put a TV in front of them with stock advice. Bam! Manipulation.

If you had a short position and a TV show, wouldn’t you want to convince other people that your short position is correct? And if you could mobilize more people to take a long position, couldn’t you make money that way, too?
I always read /r/wallstreetbets as /r/pumpanddump. I'm not surprised but disappointed that people go there for actual investment advice.
It may be useful to link from within your article so readers know what you are responding to.
Austin is becoming what LA used to be (and in the winter, still is) for the Midwest: the place for cities to send their homeless to so they don't have to spend money on them.
> The basic surface-level story of WSB is this. It’s a bunch of autistic losers that live in their mom’s basement who are gambling what little money they have to try and become rich to live lifestyles of hedonism.

> On the surface, it seems really weird but it’s mostly a type of gallows humor that permeates a lot of especially young millennials and zennial men.

The key is "the basic surface-level story" and "it's mostly a type of gallows humor". It's a story or myth, not reality. You'll see a lot of this self-deprecating humor on other 4chan-adjacent communities.

Also, I do not think that Jeromy Sonne is speaking from a position of experience with the wsb community. He has an entry-level understanding of internet communities but the article is mostly fluff and speculation instead of first-hand knowledge or research. Plus, a lot of content on wsb is "artistic works of fiction and falsehood", just like 4chan.
> at it's core it's a fun distraction and people are gamblers. it's no different than fantasy football or going to your local casino

I think the cultural links with 4chan are interesting and non-obvious to someone who didn't grow up knowing about those sorts of communities.
> Non sense.

Really great contribution there, appreciate you sharing your thoughts and furthering the conversation.

What LogicSlave said is dead on accurate. Lowering the barrier to market entry has empowered millions of people to make their money work for them. Is some of it unhealthy? Absolutely. But not all gamblers are addicts, and its not all counter-productive either. The downside is that many are jumping in without fully understanding the risks, but in my opinion, the best way to learn the game is to play. Investopedia fantasy portfolios are a risk free way to try it out, but those have been around for decades and few people use it as an opportunity to learn the market.
Right, that's my point is that death sucks and it happens a lot. Obviously we would love to prevent all the death we can but just living is not always a good trade off. My grandma for example hasn't been allowed visitors for basically a year and says she would rather be dead.
Is there a way for someone to look up what leaked about them so they can determine how problematic this could be?
I work in finance and I agree so much with everything you wrote!
> Are you sure?

If users are given the option in clear terms, most users will turn off tracking. Facebook knows this, it's why they are so pissed off at Apple and have taken such an aggressive public stance against Apple. Google knows it, it's why they haven't published an update to any of the iPhone apps since Apple started requiring their apps report what end user data they collect.

Google and Facebook are sure... not sure anyone else is more qualified on this.

> If companies could anonymously track users, and still maintain the marketing backbone of the internet I think most people would be fine with it -- in fact, prefer it.

If this were true, why doesn't Google, Facebook, and others give us straight-forward ways to opt out? If people would prefer it, why exactly is Facebook trying so damned hard to prevent Apple from giving people a simple opt out?
Is there something wrong with a 100 page introductory book on a topic being "superficial"?

I find this kind of fixed-mindset gatekeeping a lot and it really rubs me the wrong way. Everyone has to start somewhere.

We typically discourage people from diving in the deep end of a subject.

You know, starting with something "superficial."
Peleton is popular because it's going for a very different market. Those are people who do spinning classes, which has only a very small overlap with spinning classes.

In particular they don't really look for the same things that someone who buys a smartbike is looking for. Also I would add that in terms of build quality, spinning bikes are much better IMO than tacx or wahoo.

A bit of a tangent, but it's a shame that Kettler bikes never became popular, their hardware is top-notch (proper cycling bar, campagnolo ergopower grips), but they never implemented ANT or bluetoothsmart so were not compatible with Zwift and instead tried to push their own platform.
He will change his mind when he realize that the information his bank uses to verify his identify is part of his open data now...
Google is sure making a donkey of itself... a clbuttic problem indeed.

Seriously, "ass" is probably one of the mildest of vulgar words.
The Japanese Wikipedia is not a translation of the English Wikpedia. Wikipedia isn’t a good place to learn a language, and especially not by comparison. For example, here’s the Polish Wikipedia page:

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Oh, and here’s the German Wikipedia page:

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…hold on, that’s not right. Both Wikipedias have a disambiguation page, and the first link on them goes to their equivalent of Simian. The point is, every Wikipedia has its own structure, its own rules of what should be a page, and articles might be based on sources in that language, not in English.
I don't think anybody thinks that it has anything to do with Wall Street, and anyone who thinks that Wall Street has anything to do with modern markets is also about 15 years behind the times (hint: Chicago is much more important than NYC).

But as someone who spent most of their career running sizeable vol books, there are a few people on /r/wsb who do understand options, or at least they understand gamma, which is more than I can say for 90% of the morons on Twitter.

But even on /r/wsb there are clearly people who are trading at proper buyside shops. You can tell by the way they write, the things they say, and the knowledge they hold. And yet they come to /r/wsb for some of the same reasons that TFA highlights.
I guess I know, as this is what I found when I googled just now :-) https://linux-scsi.vger.kernel.narkive.com/yNnBRBPn/o-direct...

I was trying to address this aspect of the parent comment:

> O_DIRECT is the only safe way to recover from the journal after fsync failure (when the page cache can no longer be trusted by the database to be coherent with the disk)

O_DIRECT is not a safe way to recover from the journal if you have decided you cannot trust fsync to do its job, because you need fsync to make O_DIRECT write-cache durable.

(By the way, O_SYNC/O_DSYNC are equivalent to calling fsync/fdatasync after each write, therefore subject to some of the same issues.)

But even in normal situations with fsync working fine, it is not clear if you can rely on fsync to do a drive write-cache flush when there isn't any metadata or page cache data for the file because you've only been using O_DIRECT.

Neither open(2) or fsync(2) man pages address this durability issue. You can't use O_DSYNC or O_SYNC for good throughout with O_DIRECT because your database does not want the overhead of a write-cache flush on every write. You only want it for barriers. And you can't rely on fdatasync because there's no data to flush in the page cache, no block I/O to do, so fdatasync could meet expectations by doing nothing.

My solution in the past has been to toggle the LSB in st_mtime before async just to force a drive write-cache flush when I'm not sure that anything else will force one. It's not pretty.
Yes. A news search points to last July when many social media/tech orgs decided to switch from whitelist/blacklist to allowlist/denylist.

see https://grahamcluley.com/blacklist-whitelist-terminology/

I would've gone with yeslist/nolist - due to being shorter in writing and speech.
As to (3), Ken and others have also pointed out, Rudy or Sydney Powel being lawyers have a duty to know this sort of thing so there's a chance that they'll be found to have actual malice even without a finding that Rudy was knowingly lying.
WSB is hilarious. It’s also such a place of sadness.

Taking credit card advances to YOLO into short-dated OTM call options is drug-addict level desperation. People joke about YOLOing their inheritance - and I suspect there’s some reality to it. Their parents’ entire life’s wealth can’t dig them out of whatever hole their in.

The CNBC guys freaking out is incredible. Their Cramer feud is gold. But... this trend is different than people picking random internet stocks in the 90s. It’s desperate.
How can you be outsmarting people when you're just taking public advice from random people on the Internet?

Unless you're the guy posting the "hot tips" that you just happened to buy a bunch of shares in a few minutes ago hoping that the sheep will push up the price for a moment.
Good idea. I'll do a quick ninja update.
The only ones I can think of are the ones that are considered more "true" than the underlying thing they abstract.

Example: Integers. Add 5 jugs of water with a gallon each and you end up with almost 5 gallons. You call that a measurement error, not a leaky abstraction. The jugs are wrong and the math is right. Play on words really, since you could as well say that the integers are a leaky abstraction that fails to take into account inexactness. Point is, people don't tend to think of it that way.
Leapsecond.com – A web site dedicated to precise Time and Frequency
DoH removes the agency of the network provider. This is great if you can't trust the network.

If I used my ISPs DNS resolver it wouldn't allow me to access sci-hub. I can trivially use Googles DNS, but if that where to change DoH would save me.

The other problem is solvable by not buying an IOT device with a screen. I can't buy a dumb TV, but I do okay with my current one and my computer monitor.
The plan was enacted over the weekend... Only you never saw it.

Biden, his cabinet, and tons of both Dem and Republican senators and other officials were arrested. Proof of their vast crimes was shown. They were court martialed and found guilty.

However, it was decided this was too much for the American people to accept. Overturning the election and showing the crimes of these politicians could lead to Civil War.

So an agreement was reached: Biden and other deep state elements wI'll be allowed to move freely and serve their terms. President Trump would "concede" and leave office. But this is all for appearances.

Behind the scenes, Donald J. Trump is still President. This plan, known as SHADOWPREZ, was seen as a last resort. But it worked.

Anything that happens in the next 4 years is actually President Trumps doing.
Can’t anyone (well, anyone with state kind of money) observe the laser and at least dump it with perfect accuracy to keep for later decryption? I’d think tapping n undersea cable is more work than observing light going from sat to sat? I’m just spitballing here, I have no idea what’s possible or not but I’d be curious to know.
Hi everyone, this is something I have been working on quite a lot over the past years, but that for a number of reasons I could never wrap up - until now.

It all started when I was working in an energy intelligence startup, and we were having a ton of problems with low level C code on energy metering prototypes. Then, nearly by chance, I discovered MicroPython, and that you could actually program microcontrollers directly in Python. I fell in love with it, and started building Pythings.

The idea is to have a MicroPython-based OS running on a microcontroller (as the ESP8266 or the ESP32) that handles all the boring stuff (i.e. device setup, network connectivity, remote updates, error handling...) so that you are free to care about your application code only, which is pushed from the cloud directly on the micro. There are also other features, as a remote shell, a basic plotting engine and a few REST-ish APIs, but this is the core of it.

You can both sign up on the cloud or download and run it locally (everything comes dockerized and with a "batteries included" phyilosophy). The licence is Apache 2.
One of the very liberal reporters at the LA Times did a series of articles on the homeless crisis in LA a year or two ago.

He actually had difficulty finding a homeless person who was from Southern California. Nearly all of the homeless were from other states or other countries.

It's not California's failure so much as it is that the rest of the nation is using California to warehouse their homeless so they can feel smug about not caring for their own citizens.
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Your experience really speaks to our target demo :) and you're not wrong - it is definitely punishing (good word to describe it!) which is why we really focused (and continue to focus) on making our content fun and engaging.
Per point 2, all of the German manufacturers now seem to have similar strategy dates. Many other European manufacturers are presumably paying attention as well. Even in the US, GM has signaled they've got their own relatively close date in mind where they expect it to happen, but for many reasons (including hostile US shareholders) have been keeping the specific date close to the chest. They are probably a bit more pessimistic in that date than the German automakers, but they've made it clear the horizon is coming (whether hostile US shareholders like it or not).

Interesting flipside corollaries to points 3 and 4: my opinion is I expect we may see something of a "singularity" slope in the transition sooner than I think a lot of people expect as ICE supply chains (which are quite complex webs) get disrupted and gas infrastructure goes away. Disruptions to the first may cause quick spikes in ICE vehicle costs and maintenance costs from increasing prices for consumers and decreasing supply of ICE-specific auto parts. As for the second issue, gas pumps are already seen as a high maintenance cost rarely profitable loss leader for grocery stores and convenience stores. How long do you think the pumps will be serviced/maintained/made available as demand drops? I certainly expect it might snowball surprisingly quickly whether or not overall oil costs remain at historic lows.
It just doesn't add up to me. If you take Gamestop (GME) today's hot item, it's trading 170M shares back and forth, at say, $70. That's $11B sloshing back and forth.

You're telling me 10,000 (if even?) guys sitting at home doing retail trading have $1M each in positions driving this? 100,000 people with $100,000 each, during the day?

I think it's quant and algorithmic trading.

I would love to hear from an expert though.
Anecdote:
I used to get new glasses/prescriptions every year. Every year my prescriptions would get stronger.
Last couple of years I stopped renewing my glasses and whenever I absolutely need to get new glasses, I have the store use my old prescription.
For whatever reason, my eye sight stopped getting worse. I think by wearing stronger prescriptions, your eyes adapt to it and you get more and more myopic.